A) It's not irrelevant at all. These people call(ed) themselves futurists. You can't hand-wave away its semantic significance and pretend we don't need to talk

A) It's not irrelevant at all. These people call(ed) themselves futurists. You can't hand-wave away its semantic significance and pretend we don't need to talk about how that word is bullshit. B) I could hardly think of a less compelling defense of futurism than "a fuzzy crystal ball is better than no crystal ball."